Wanted: A Systems View on Certification!

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Wanted A Systems View on Certification!
Kristina LundqvistEmbedded Systems
LaboratoryDepartment of Aeronautics and
AstronauticsMassachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, MA
Jayakanth Srinivasan, Ricardo ValerdiLean
Aerospace InitiativeCenter for Technology,
Policy, and Industrial DevelopmentMassachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
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Wanted A Systems View on Certification!
Systems thinking defined as analysis, synthesis,
and understanding of interconnections,
interactions, and interdependencies that are
technical, social, temporal, and multi-level
Heidi L. Davidz, Enabling Systems Thinking to
Accelerate the Development of Senior Systems
Engineers, Doctoral Dissertation in Engineering
Systems, MIT, 2006

• Systems thinking dominantly obtained through
  on-the-job experience
• Can it be taught, and to whom?
• Academia Undergraduates and Graduates
• Few core software engineering courses for non-cs
  majors
• Certification barely touched upon
• Acquirers
• Certifying the development process vs. certifying
  the product
• Need to provide both domain knowledge and
  software knowledge
• System developers
• Certification has to go beyond being a
  bureaucratic necessity
• Need to articulate the value derived from
  certification